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Monday, May 28, 2018

First African-American Ivy League president now leads HBCU

In 2001 Ruth Simmons was the first African American Ivy League President when she took the reins at Brown University. She has now come out of retirement to lead Prairie View A & M University near her hometown in Texas. She’s driven to continue guiding young lives just as she had been helped as a young student.